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Автор: Kruuk H.
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 978-0-521-89109-7
Количество страниц: 262
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Размер: 5 Мб
Каталожный номер: 14196
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Humans have mixed emotions concerning carnivores. We admire
them as beautiful hunters, cosset them as pets and working animals, hunt them, and use their pelts and other products in clothing, medicines and cosmetics. However, they are also responsible for killing us and our livestock, carry disease and compete with us for space and food. While some advocate the conservation of predators such as wolves and tigers, others see them as vermin and want them gone. In this book, Hans Kruuk, a lifelong naturalist with a passion
for predators, tells the fascinating story of carnivores and our intricate relationships with them. Illustrated with specially commissioned drawings, it deals with the wild beauty of carnivores and their conservation, but also with pets, sport, furs and medicine, maneaters and sheep killers, explaining in simple terms what the role of carnivores is in nature, their impacts on human lives, our art and literature, and how and why we instinctively respond to them.
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